Name: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

A name is a label for a thing, person, place, product (as in a brand name), and even an idea or concept, originally to distinguish one from another. Names can identify a class or category of things, or a single thing, either uniquely, or within a given context. A name is also called a proper noun.

A human name is an anthroponym; a toponym is a place name; hydronym is a name of a body of water; an ethnonym is name of an ethnic group. For more, see a list of -onym words.

In addition to its original purpose of distinguishing, names have come to have additional or pure honorary and memorial values. For example, the posthumous name's primary function is commemorative.

Naming is the process of assigning a particular word or phrase to a pattern that has been noticed. This can be quite deliberate or a natural process that occurs in the flow of life as some phenomenon comes to the attention of the users of a language. Many new words or phrases come into existence during translation as attempts are made to express concepts from one language in another.

Either as a part of the naming process, or later as usage is observed and studied by lexicographers, the word can be defined by a description of the pattern it refers to.

• a common name is a name for a plant or animal in a locale's native language, often describing the item's appearance. For example, "buttercup" might describe several unrelated plants with small yellow flowers in different parts of the world. There are millions of possible objects that can be described in science, too many to create common names for every one. As a response, a number of systems of systematic names have been created. An example of a systematic naming scheme is Linnaean taxonomy, which uses Latin names for plants and animals.
• personal name; It is universal for a person to have a name.
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In 2004, a study found that a person's name affects how attractive they are perceived to be by others. The study used scores from hotornot.com based on pictures of the same person with different names as captions. [1]